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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

OBITUARY Social Items

Blind Socialist Dios In London

London, Mar. 25.

Lord Sanderson, aged 70, and blind from birth, died in London to-day Reuter,

Miss Tsang Shuk Ching has been appointed a Public-Vaccinator.

Amongst those who recently left Shanghai on Home leave via Siberia is Mr. L. Chevretton, Manager of the Banque de l'Inde Chine, accompanied by Mme. Chevretton. He has been replaced by Count F. de Courseulles, who flew from Paris to Hongkong.

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Henry Sanderson Furniss, who at tained high academic distinction in epite of being nently blind from birth and became the first Lord Sanderson, was born in 1868, and educated at first privately owing to his offliction and then at Hertford College, Oxford,

"Pacifism and Politics" will be the where in 1893 he took second clas honours modem history. In 1902 aubject of this week's address to the he married a daughter of H. F. Peace Pledge Union, which will be Nicholl of Twyford and with her de- given by Mr. S. A. Gray. The meet voted assistanco in reading to him was able to continue la studies withing will take place at the Challenge such success that four years later he Bookshop, Ice House Street, tookt

Oxford diploma the

In Wednesday, at 5.30 pan. : economies with distinction. In 1907 he was appointed lecturer and tutor in economics at Ruskin College, the Institution founded at Oxford in 1509

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March 27, 1939.

PORTUGUESE CONSUL Appointment to Durban From Hongkong

Consul for Portugual in Hongkong since March, 1035, Mr. Alvaro Brillante Laborinho will shortly leave to take up a new post in Durbon, South Africa.

He will be succeeded here by the present Portuguese Consul in Can- ton, Mr. Morgado,

Mr. Laborinho Was born in Nazareth, Portugal, in 1903, and was educated at the Universidade Tecnica de Lisbon, taking his diploma as Social Licenciate in Economic and Science. After an extra course in Colonial Administration, he attended the Escoln Politica at Lisbon and in 1020 occupied the Chairs of Pro- onfessor da Escola Industrial e Com- mercial and Nacoes Geris de Comer- cio. In 1930 he joined the General Board of the Internal Customs Ser- vice as a Cadet and låter passed | examinations which gained him entry to the diplomatic service.

The forthcoming wedding is un- for artisans who desired to qualify nouriced between Mr. Harold Quentin for active work on behalf of their Hunt, chemist, residing at 7 Babing- class as Labour M.Pa' or trade union ton Path, and Miss Frances Lowcock, organisers. In 1910 he was made of 5 Grampian Road, Kowloon. Principal of the college.

He proved to be an excellent nd-

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Mr. Laborinho was appointed Con- sut to San Paulo, Brazil, in 1931, and the next year to Manaos, where he stayed for two years. Subsequently ministrator and a gympathetic chief The Archbishop's Palace, Manila,ho was appointed to Singapore, but but these qualities were severely was the scene last week of the wed-this was replaced by his nomination tried at the end of the war. It had ding of Miss Virginia Betts and Alex to the Hongkong post where he has become a fixed idea among a certain Boisserce, the well-known Interportened to make many good friend Bet of undergraduates in other footballer, formerly of Shanghai, and take part in good causes with colleges to regard all the Ruskin men The bride was given in marriage by the Portuguese community. as Bolsheviks and in the later stages the father, Arlington A. U. Betts of of the war excitement they mado Albay. such boisterous demonstrations in and about Ruskin College that several frce Aghis occurred. When

Perhaps the Portuguese Companies

of the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps received most encouragement

The wedding took place last week from the Consul but his general in-

for instance, Mr. George Lansbury at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghat, terest in social work and his patron- went there to speak, the college was of Mr. John Gordon Frederick Shot-age of the Club Lusitano made him

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among 11/0 besieged by uproarious students and ter, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. highly popular he had to be smuggled out.

E. Shotter, and Miss Dorothy Grace countrymen here and at, Macao, to Lord Sanderson handled the situa- Lavington, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. which Colony he

visitor. tion, however, with such tact ond) A. T. Lavington. kindliness that he gradually softened

the bitterness und reduced the feud

to very small dimensions.

At the general election of 1910 he Oxford was Labour candidate for University, but was defeated. In 1025 he resigned his post at the college and in 1930 was raised in the

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RICARDO XAVIER

Local Youth Succumbs After Contracting Typhoid

A well-known member of the local Portuguese community died yesterday in the French Hospital, a victim of typhoid. He was Ricardo Maria Xavier, a former member of the local Volunteers and for the last six years A member of the staff of the Hong- kong Electric Company.

The son of Relbuldo R. Gustavo Xavier, the deceased Was only 22 years of age. The funeral will pass' the monument at 5.30 p.m. to-day.

URBAN COUNCIL Installation of Latrine In Kowloon City

At the fortnightly meeting of the Urban Council, to-morrow afternoon,

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"That in the opinion of the Council, additional-latrine accommodation- required at Kowloon City: that the Council desires the erection of public flush latrine on a site on the cast side of Lung Kong Road, Kow- loon City, such site being situated to the west of New Kowloon Inland Lots Nos. 1827, 1802, 1021 and 1813, is shown on the plan signed by the Hun. Director of Public Works dated January 31, 1939."

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